Theatre Support Worker

Job overview

Wycombe Hospital Operating Theatres are looking for a Theatre Support Worker to join our friendly team. As the elective surgery site for the Trust, we support operations across a range of specialities, including ENT, General surgery, Gynaecology, Orthopaedics, Plastic surgery, Robotic surgery and Urology.  You will be supporting the care of patients undergoing operations under the direction of a registered nurse or operating department practitioner and contribute to their ongoing support. Successful candidates will support theatre practitioners in the delivery of patient focused care in our varied clinical surgical teams.

If shortlisted, you will be required to undertake an assessment, that should take approximately 15 minutes.

Main duties of the job

• Participate in circulating duties under the supervision of trained theatre staff.
• Collect sets and instruments for operating lists.
• Makes requests to the Sterile Services Department for instrumentation required.
• Maintain stock levels in theatre and preparation areas.
• Work as a member of the theatre team.
• To maintain stocks of specimen containers, slides and forms from the Pathology department.
• Carry out date checks on sterile instruments and report any discrepancies.
• To assist with the calculation of blood loss for patients in theatre and report promptly to the scrub nurse excessive loss.
• Able to stand for long periods of time and engage in frequent moving and handling of patients, equipment and instrument trays.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

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